Move over @mu.social I'm bringing the future of social media. Slowly getting to the point where I'd welcome testers. I've spent the bulk of the time on themeing and my page, powered by @robin.berjon.com DASL tiles, so everything else will need some tlc

The US got to be the home of an entire massive industry, to this day, by allowing one single war refugee to immigrate

Heard about the Wright Brothers in 1908, age 19 Within a year built a prototype helicopter Couldn’t get it working, shifted to airplanes and became a famed aircraft designer Fled to the US in 1918 Made planes in the US for 20 years First helicopter flight in 1940 Over 1000 built in 5 models by 1950

Introducing @mu.social's Trusted Verifier Program hello.mu.social/verification/

Part 2 of my 7-part series explaining atproto to your friends/family/colleagues who aren't in the ecosystem (yet): "Your identity ≠ your username" gui.do/post/atproto...

This by @transjournalists.org is worth reading if you're a media professional writing about the SCOTUS rulings from yesterday

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

I’ve read all the replies to this and there is literally 0 objections A pinned feed just makes sense if the selling point of you app is “algorithmic choice” I hope we can get @devingaffney.com’s pr merged

This is really how the atmosphere should be pitched to Instagram users: You don't need to suffer Meta's puritanistic, ban-happy moderation. You own your account — not Meta. I have queer friends who've had to recreate their Instas multiple times in a month. It's such a waste of everyone's time.

Cancelled my NowTV subscription because I only really want the HBO part and realised I can get that separately Between the two packages I had, I think they served me 10 "Are you sure?" dialogs (I didn't even know I was subscribed to two packages). God what a shit service.

Elite Dangerous Deluxe Edition is on sale for £7.69 right now if anyone wants to come help spread communism around the galaxy... 👀

This would be a really nice improvement to custom feeds and it's kinda confusing why it doesn't work like this already

About right

This is a superb idea

🏳️‍🌈 It's the last day of Pride month and we're hoping to squeeze in one last win by hitting our stretch target of 60 new members. We're so close! Can you help us get over the line? https://www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/

Happy Pride from downing street, trans ladies dont drink too much or you’ll have to go use the gents later Also conversion therapy stays legal wahoo

Saw someone post something about how we should share good content from Bluesky to other social platforms, and I'm sitting here thinking like, "wait, there's good content on Bluesky???"

These issues — online censorship, doxxing, harassment, income declines — can seem universal because they're so common. Which can paper over how badly this is hurting specific communities. But the numbers of shocking. Universal solutions aimed at all creators are missing the most vulnerable.

I currently have 454 paid subscribers. Getting to 500 would enable me to reliably fund travel for stories & to purchase media insurance so I could pursue investigative journalism at my newsletter.

Exactly, most of these l reforms resulted from the UK losing court cases in the European court of human rights. Every government, Labour or Tory in United Kingdom, has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to LGBT rights reform against its will.

No Labour at Pride. Not this year, not ever again.

Yknow, actually? For the first time in years, I don't want a smoke

Can't wait until I'm recovered enough to not need this surgical bra any more, gonna shoot a new profile photo because this one is like 5 years old now 😅

Not sure who at bsky to route this to. Came up in the discord and I asked @aendra.com to post an issue so I could help boost. Would be helpful to know where to send people.

Jerry! No!

When I still did club photography around the London trans scene I was kind of amazed how much people liked my work, I didn't think I was very good and couldn't figure it out. But then I realised it's because I photograph trans women so they look as feminine as possible, instead of the opposite.

The single stupidest thing about 3rd labellers continues to be the fact it's impossible to prevent them from using labels not in their service record. It's the very first thing I'd change about them at this point, tbth — it's actively preventing me from recruiting new help for XBlock.

🔴 Norwich Trans Pride Picnic - A live thread 🧵 It's 11:50 and we're at the scene. Currently most people are struggling to find shade - as most of the field is dried up with few trees in the middle for shelter.

btw, these phoney "alt gov" accounts are yet another thing that the skywatch labeler @skywatch.blue will save you from seeing

this is amazing

That's @xblock.aendra.dev which is my moderation service for automatically labelling screenshots from social media platforms. I've been running it off a gaming PC in my flat for years now, it allows Bluesky users to CW or hide e.g. Twitter and Bluesky screenshots

I'm going to need some additional human moderators to help with the queue as I start work on the retraining pipeline; if you appreciate XBlock and are interested in helping out a bit, please do DM me!

Doing some @xblock.aendra.dev work today, finally have it working as a system process instead of something I manually restart every time my Windows machine reboots. Also working on a fully automated training pipeline

PSA to people on Instagram: people who don’t have Instagram can’t see your posts! They see a login prompt. That information about your business or your event? Literally inaccessible

For Pride month, here's a reminder on what assimilationism is. With some history. It ain't what you wear or how you do your hrt. It is a political stance about power that prizes queer gentry assimilating into the status quo at the expense of the rest of us. And that is something we have to fight.

Another important piece from @masnick.com, whose paper "Platforms not Protocols" inspired @bsky.app. "Despotification" is Masnick’s new term for platforms leveraging market concentration, lack of credible exit, and algorithmic recommendations to seize political power.

turns out, when elon musk posts "imprison the government," it doesn't matter much. but thousands of accounts repeating each other does so if permission for violence was never really coming from the owner, what happens on a network that has no owner at all? connectedplaces.online/the-permissi...

new from me: ai bots are overwhelming the signup application process for fediverse servers. so how do you build community when you cannot distinguish between an LLM and a human anymore? connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

Testing the waters: Who’s up for a casual AT Protocol meetup in Barcelona? 🍹 📅 July 2, 8PM 📍 Alice’s Secret Garden (near Urquinaona) No agenda, just drinks and chat. RSVP below Location may change if we exceed 10 people, so follow @atproto.barcelona for updates! #ATProtocol #Barcelona #Meetup

One of the best things about Deep Space Nine is that sometimes these are switched.

My view: if you're an organisation celebrating this bill you're doing so to advance your own interests rather than those of trans people. The bill is a disgrace which is in reality more likely to hurt trans people than help them. 👇🏻

Dang, with weather like this we should really do a chilled outdoors social for the next @atproto.london London ATProto summer drinks? Anyone down??

Good god I just stepped outside this feels like Mexico not London

Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening

Back on the other site, years ago, there was a thread about the most pretentious thing people had ever overheard. Someone said they witnessed a guy at an ice cream van asking for 'two Magna'.

they hate the arts, they hate activism, they don’t care about genocide or about human rights or about the rapid heat death of the planet, but hey they aren’t reform.

If you’re in London tonight and are interested in journalism/tech, this is taking place *in an air conditioned room*: luma.com/09ugslis

I dunno, maybe I’ll regret asking this aloud but: Cis folks, tell me stories about the trans people you know and love, and/or about how transphobia has impacted you and yours …